On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 2:06:53 PM UTC-4, Ingwie Phoenix wrote: > > I actually always wondered: We have a scripting engine. Why do we rely on > Python for GYP, if we have NodeJS? Is there no gyp replacement in node > itself? > > I would think the problem would be when you're building from source and and do not already have node installed. Otherwise a node executable would have to be downloaded/embedded to run the build script, at which point you may as well just use/install the downloaded/embedded node binary ;-)
I think Python is commonly already installed enough that it's rarely a problem. -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/8f1c0c81-4871-4d19-9715-4442a9144517%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
